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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:20:57 -0500
From:      Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
To:        Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Editor With NO Shell Access?
Message-ID:  <4F5E5AA9.4050700@tundraware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120312201310.GA25349@saltmine.radix.net>
References:  <4F5E4C2A.1020005@tundraware.com> <20120312201310.GA25349@saltmine.radix.net>

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On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:19:06PM -0500, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> I have a situation where I need to provide people with the ability to edit
>> files.  However, under no circumstances do I want them to be able to exit
>> to the shell.   The client in question has strong (and unyielding) InfoSec
>> requirements in this regard.
>>
>> So ... are there editors without this feature?  Can I compile something like
>> joe or vi to inhibit this feature?
>
> man vi (see "-S")
>

It turns out you can still work around this if your know the trick.
I am still researching this, but restricted vi appears to be compromised.



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